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KARACHI, Jan 21: Two activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were gunned down in a targeted attack in North Karachi on Monday, police said, claiming to have arrested one of the attackers.

MQM activists Mohammad Adnan, 35, and Amir Iqbal, 30, both KMC employees of the North Karachi town office, were targeted near Do-Minute Chowrangi while they were heading to their office, said North Karachi SP Syed Salman Hussain.

They were followed by two men riding a motorcycle within the remit of the Khawaja Ajmair Nagri police station before being shot at, the officials said. Both activists sustained gunshot wounds in the head and died at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, the police added.

“After hearing the gunshots, two police constables posted at a nearby Soneri Bank fired at the fleeing attackers,” the SP said. “One of the suspected attackers fell from the bike, while his accomplice managed to flee,” he added.

The wounded suspect, identified as Sajid, was said to be associated with ‘gang warfare’, the officer said.

He expressed his sympathies with the grieving family and said the sacrifice rendered by elected representatives and workers of the MQM would not go in vain.

Condemning the murder, the co-ordination committee of the MQM called it a continuation of the evil conspiracy aimed at destabilising the city’s peace.

The coordination committee said that certain elements were targeting elected representatives and workers of the MQM as well as leaders and activists of other political and religious parties in order to destabilise the country.